The General Biographical Dictionary, Volumen 21J. Nichols, 1815 |
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... poet . " Suidas has preserved the titles of twenty tragedies of his composing ; and he is reckoned in the number of the poets who were called the Pleiades , and who flourished under Ptolemy Philadelphus , king of Egypt . The best ...
... poet . " Suidas has preserved the titles of twenty tragedies of his composing ; and he is reckoned in the number of the poets who were called the Pleiades , and who flourished under Ptolemy Philadelphus , king of Egypt . The best ...
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... poet , is recorded as one of the immediate successors of Chaucer . The few dates that have been recovered of his history are , that he was ordained a sub - deacon in 1389 ; a deacon in 1393 , and a priest in 1397 ; from these it has ...
... poet , is recorded as one of the immediate successors of Chaucer . The few dates that have been recovered of his history are , that he was ordained a sub - deacon in 1389 ; a deacon in 1393 , and a priest in 1397 ; from these it has ...
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... poet's works ( vol . IV . p . 139 ) . We find Pope , a few years afterwards , in a letter to Swift , speak thus of him : He is " one of those whom his own merit has forced me to contract an intimacy with , after I had sworn never to ...
... poet's works ( vol . IV . p . 139 ) . We find Pope , a few years afterwards , in a letter to Swift , speak thus of him : He is " one of those whom his own merit has forced me to contract an intimacy with , after I had sworn never to ...
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... poet . " While he was thus conspicuous , he married ( 1741 ) Miss Lucy Fortescue , sister to Matthew lord Fortescue , of Devonshire , by whom he had a son , Thomas , and two daughters , and with whom he appears to have lived in the ...
... poet . " While he was thus conspicuous , he married ( 1741 ) Miss Lucy Fortescue , sister to Matthew lord Fortescue , of Devonshire , by whom he had a son , Thomas , and two daughters , and with whom he appears to have lived in the ...
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... poet , we do not find among critics any wide departure from Dr. Johnson's opinion . Lord Lyttelton's poems are to be praised chiefly for correctness and elegance of versification and style . His " Advice to Belinda , " though for the ...
... poet , we do not find among critics any wide departure from Dr. Johnson's opinion . Lord Lyttelton's poems are to be praised chiefly for correctness and elegance of versification and style . His " Advice to Belinda , " though for the ...
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Página 9 - ... for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.
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Página 24 - ... to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true, and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach (1747), by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Página 28 - Thus he continued giving his dying benediction to all around him. On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes, but these vanished in the evening; and he continued dying, but with very little uneasiness, till Tuesday morning, August 22, when between seven and eight o'clock he expired, almost without a groan.
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Página 453 - Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late rev. Thomas Baker, BD of St. John's-college, from the papers of Dr. Zachary Grey, with a Catalogue of his MS Collections," Cambridge, 8vo; and in 1790 "A Catalogue of the several pictures in the public library and respective colleges of the university of Cambridge,
Página 111 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.
Página 195 - I never in my life knew a man that had so tender a heart for his particular friends, or a more general friendship for mankind.